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Helen Forrest (born Helen Fogel, April 12, 1917 – July 11, 1999) was an American singer of traditional pop and swing music.She served as the "girl singer" for three of the most popular big bands of the Swing Era (Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and Harry James), thereby earning a reputation as "the voice of the name bands."
Western swing. Adolph Hofner (1932–1993) Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (1905–1975) Cecil Brower (1914–1965) Chet Atkins (1942–1996) Chubby Wise (1915–1996)
Wilson participated in Time-Life's "Swing Era" recording sessions, led by arranger/leader Billy May on a series of recordings that recreated music recorded during the Big Band Era. The series sought to have the original singers re-record their hits in high fidelity stereo—a technology not available during the 1930s and 1940s—but where the ...
Martha Tilton (November 14, 1915 – December 8, 2006) [1] was an American popular singer during America's swing era and traditional pop period. She is best known for her 1939 recording of "And the Angels Sing" with Benny Goodman. Tilton was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, United States. [2]
Singers in the genre of swing music. Pages in category "Swing singers" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total.
The Kim Loo Sisters were an American jazz vocal quartet popular during the swing era. The close harmony group consisted of Alice (August 22, 1916 – April 16, 2011), Margaret “Maggie” (November 4, 1917 – July 14, 2016) Genevieve “Jenée” (May 19, 1920 – November 3, 2019) and Patricia “Bubbles” (born October 3, 1922).
Girl groups have been popular at least since the heyday of the Boswell Sisters beginning in the 1930s, but the term "girl group" also denotes the wave of American female pop singing groups who flourished in the late 1950s and early 1960s between the decline of early rock and roll and the British Invasion, many of whom were influenced by doo-wop ...
The swing era (also frequently referred to as the big band era) was the period (1933–1947) when big band swing music was the most popular music in the United States, especially for teenagers.